George Bush is heading into this next election cycle with a sluggish economy that makes basic “American dream” sort of items like owning a car or a house prohibitive for many people. He’s also facing a rising unemployment rate where many jobs are leaving for overseas and where many traditional American manufacturing jobs are drying up. There are many unresolved issues in the Middle East and chief among the criticisms of his Administration being why he did not finish the job in Iraq. The prohibitive Democratic nominee has been hit with a spate of scandals lately, some of which carry the taint that he isn’t patriotic or does not truly love his country.
All this we gleaned tonight while watching the excellent PBS series “American Experience” on George…. H.W. Bush.
The run-up to the ’92 elections saw unemployment at 7.4% and the country coming out of an honest-to-god actual recession, recording a 2.9% growth in the GDP for the 3rd quarter of ’92… a tad too late perhaps too change the minds of voters who elected instead, a Clinton.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The 16 year snooze button
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BwDude! PBS! I'm so proud.
My Marxist-leftist tendencies are starting to rub off on the John Birch Tower that is BwD.
I saw almost all of night one of the Bush episode, but have to admit I was doing serious channel surfing between night two, the Lake County rabbit-out-of-the-hat from Indiana on CNN, and watching the local news to plot how I could fill the drug dealing vacuum at my alma mater to make myself a "play-a" and an honest buck based on the laws of supply and demand.
What's an "eighth" again??
- "It makes good rope" Mongo
You're giving yourself way too much credit, Mongo.
So we're doing the pinewood derby thing at boy scouts. Time to "weigh in" the cars. All the dads look around at each other. No one has a scale.........anymore.
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